What are Carbohydrates?

A large component of the
carbohydrates we eat are sugars or are converted to sugars in our body.

People are generally confused
about what the word "Sugar" really means and assume that sugars from
natural foods, like fruit, somehow behave differently in the body compared to
something like table sugar (Sucrose).

The word “natural sugars”
causes misconception because we immediately assume that fruits are not a type
of carbohydrate sugar that is bad for us, since they
are “natural”, and so in turn they don’t contribute to weight
gain. The truth is, the simple sugars in our diets (Glucose, Fructose and
Sucrose) all have the same outcomes and all contribute to weight gain in one
way or another.

Glucose and Sucrose generally
behave in the same way and are used by both the brain and muscles. Excess of
these is converted to Glycogen by both the liver and the muscles of
the body.

As a matter of fact, the type
of sugar in fruit is called “fructose” and it is stored in the liver as
glycogen. If fructose is not utilised immediately as energy, it is quickly
converted to fat.

Once fructose goes into liver
glycogen stores, it can NOT be reused as energy for muscles or the brain and
contributes directly to fat storage.

In addition, people are also ignorant to
the fact that milk contains a lot of sugar in the form of lactose which is
eventually converted to glucose in the body.

As a result, people are
essentially eating a lot more carbohydrate sugars than they realise, which
may caused weight gain.

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